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Subject: Re: Endgame easy test position

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 07:41:12 09/18/01

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On September 18, 2001 at 09:40:26, Eduard Nemeth wrote:

>First the game:
>
>[Event "TCh-YUG Herceg Novi YUG"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "2001.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Vukic,M"]
>[Black "Marinkovic,I"]
>[WhiteElo "2470"]
>[BlackElo "2440"]
>[ECO "A30"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 b6 3. Bg2 Bb7 4. O-O g6 5. c4 c5 6. Nc3
>Bg7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4 d6 9. Be3 Nbd7 10. Rac1 Rc8 11. b3
>O-O 12. Qd2 Nc5 13. Rfd1 Nce4 14. Nxe4 Nxe4 15. Qe1 Qd7
>16. Nd4 Nf6 17. Nf3 Ne4 18. Qb4 Nc3 19. Rd2 Ne4 20. Rd3 Nc5
>21. Rdd1 Rfd8 22. Ne1 h5 23. Bxc5 Rxc5 24. Nd3 Bxg2
>25. Kxg2 Qb7+ 26. f3 Rc7 27. Nf2 Rdc8 28. Qd2 b5 29. cxb5
>Qxb5 30. Kf1 Bc3 31. Qd3 Qa5 32. Rc2 Bf6 33. Rdc1 Rxc2
>34. Rxc2 Rxc2 35. Qxc2 d5 36. e3 Kg7 37. Nd3 e6 38. Ke2 Qa3
>39. f4 Kg8 40. h3 Kg7 41. Kf3 Qd6 42. g4 hxg4+ 43. hxg4 e5
>44. fxe5 Bxe5 45. Nxe5 Qxe5 46. Qc5 Qf6+ 47. Kg3 Qe5+
>48. Kh3 a6 49. Qd4 Kf6 50. b4 Ke6 51. a4 Qc7 52. g5 Qc2
>53. Qf6+ Kd7 54. Qxf7+ Kd6 55. Qf6+ Kd7 56. Qd4 Ke6 57. Kg3
>Qb1 58. Qb6+ Ke7 59. Qb7+ Kf8 60. Qxd5 Qxb4 61. Qd8+ Kg7
>62. Qd4+ 1-0
>
>Position after move 61. Kg7:
>
>[D]3Q4/6k1/p5p1/6P1/Pq6/4P1K1/8/8 w - -
>
>After 62. Qf6+ is the win not easy. But after 62. Qd4+ is the game easy to win,
>and the game end! For any programs ist the move Qd4+ not easy to find.
>
>:-(
>
>S532 finds the move with TBs after 58 seconds on P600:
>
>Analysis by Shredder 5.32:
>
>
>1.Df6+ Kh7 2.Dxa6 De1+ 3.Kg4 Dg1+ 4.Kf4 Dh2+ 5.Ke4 Dg2+ 6.Kd4 Dxg5 7.Db7+ Kh8
>  +-  (2.33)   Tiefe: 11/22   00:00:44  7096kN, tb=6535
>1.Dd7+ Kg8 2.De6+ Kh7 3.Dxa6 De1+ 4.Kg4 Dg1+ 5.Kf4 Dh2+ 6.Ke4 Dg2+ 7.Kd4 Dxg5
>8.Db7+ Kh8
>  +-  (2.34)   Tiefe: 11/22   00:00:46  7474kN, tb=6990
>1.Dd7+ Kg8 2.De6+ Kh7 3.Dxa6 De1+ 4.Kg4 Dg1+ 5.Kf4 Dh2+ 6.Ke4 Dg2+ 7.Kd4 Dxg5
>8.Db7+ Kh8
>  +-  (2.34)   Tiefe: 11/22   00:00:52  8440kN, tb=7665
>1.Dd4+ Dxd4 2.exd4 Kf7 3.Kf4 Ke6 4.Ke4 Kf7
>  +-  (2.35)   Tiefe: 11/22   00:00:58  9490kN, tb=8444
>1.Dd4+ Dxd4 2.exd4 Kf7 3.Kf4 Ke6 4.Ke4 a5 5.d5+ Kd7 6.Ke5 Ke7 7.d6+
>  +-  (2.66)   Tiefe: 11/22   00:00:58  9494kN, tb=8444
>
>
>For Tiger 14 is this not so easy:
>
>Analysis by Chess Tiger 14.0:
>
>1.Df6+ Kh7 2.Dxa6 De1+ 3.Kg2 Dxe3 4.Db7+ Kg8 5.Dc8+ Kf7 6.Dd7+ Kg8 7.Dd5+ Kg7
>8.a5 De2+ 9.Kg3 De1+
>  +-  (2.28)   Tiefe: 15   00:03:00  37784kN, tb=595
>1.Dd4+ Dxd4 2.exd4 Kf7 3.d5 Ke7 4.Kf4 Kd6 5.Ke4 a5 6.Kd4 Ke7 7.Ke5 Kf7 8.d6 Ke8
>9.Kf6
>  +-  (2.36)   Tiefe: 15   00:03:31  44143kN, tb=712
>1.Dd4+
>  +-  (3.26)   Tiefe: 16   00:03:52  48366kN, tb=955
>
>Eduard

postmodernist takes twenty-eight seconds to find this and sticks with it
for five minutes on my PIII-450 with 64MB RAM.

 9=   244    10    662049   1. Qf6 Kh7 2. Qf7 Kh8 3. Kf3 Qxa4 4. Qf8 Kh7
                            5. Qh6 Kg8 6. Qxg6 Kf8 7. Qf6 Kg8 8. g6
10>   239    28   1815790   1. Qd4 Qxd4 2. exd4 Kf7 3. d5 Ke7 4. Kf4 Kd6
                            5. Ke4 a5
10=   240    28   1817070   1. Qd4 Qxd4 2. exd4 Kf7 3. d5 Ke7 4. Kf4 Kd6
                            5. Ke4 a5
11>   240    28   1818133   1. Qd4 Qxd4 2. exd4 Kf7 3. d5 Ke7 4. Kf4 Kd6
                            5. Ke4 a5 6. Kd4
11=   240    52   3309064   1. Qd4 Qxd4 2. exd4 Kf7 3. d5 Ke7 4. Kf4 Kd6
                            5. Ke4 a5 6. Kd4

etc etc

Andrew





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